Garbage can lining



Feb; 20, 1934. I A. DUBBs 1,947,835

GARBAGE CAN LINING Filed Jan. 7. 1950 Patented Feb. 20, 1934 GARBAGE canLINING Leland A. Dubbs. Los Angeles, cam. Application January 'I, 1930.Serial No. 419,085

1 Claim. ,(Ol. 220-65) This invention relates to the use of a temporaryand replaceable lining or linings that can be inserted in a conventionalrefuse receptacle and one of the primary objects being to provide aconvenient and inexpensive means for maintaining a conventional refusereceptacle in a clean and sanitary condition bythe use of suchreplaceable temporary lining.

My invention consists of providing conventional refuse receptacles withtemporary and replaceable linings, which upon becoming unsanitary and/orsoiled, may be easily and quickly removed and disposed of and bereplaced with a clean lining thereby avoiding the necessity of the veryoffensive task of having to clean and sterilize the interior of the saidconventional refuse receptacles each time they were used in order tomaintain them in a clean and sanitary condition.

This replaceable lining may be made of any suitable material as forinstance, paper formed to fit the interior of the conventional refusereceptacle and said lining may be suitably treated as for instance, madegrease, vermin and/or fire proof against the action of slight heat andcontaining, if necessary, an insecticide, antiseptic and/or deodorant inaccordance with the use to which the said lining would serve.

A conventional refuse receptacle could contain one such removable liningbut, for more convenient use could contain several such replaceablelinings nested one within the other, that is, each additional liningwould be slightly smaller in size and the whole nest of liners insertedin the conventional refuse receptacle in such manner so that the soiledand/or unsanitary lining could be easily and quickly removed withoutdisturbing the other linings and thereby providing a clean and sanitarylining in the said conventional refuse receptacle.

Having stated the nature of my invention, I will now give a briefdescription of the accompanying drawing.

Fig. 1 is the top or plan of material and illustrates where the folds bemade.

Fig. 2 is a top or plan view showing how the folds are made.

Fig. 3 is a side view showing the nature of the folds.

Fig. 4 is a view showing the formed lining with the pull and liftingwire attached thereto.

Fig. 5 illustrates the lining inserted in a conventional refusereceptacle containing the pull and lifting wire and the cutting andclamping band.

view of a circular piece could A brief outline as to one form ofapplying invention to practical use would be to take a piece of suitablematerial as for instance, paper of sufllcient strength and cut incircular shape having an area slightly larger than the interior go areaof the conventional refuse receptacle into which it is to be used, thatis, if the conventional refuse receptacle has sides fifteen inches highand a bottom diameter of ten inches, then the diameter of the circularpiece of material from 5 which the lining is to be formed, should beapproximately forty-four inches in diameter and folded in a manner sothat the top opening would be approximately the same diameter as thebottom, the excess material in the sides being taken 10 up by the Vfolds which extend from the bottom to the top. The material from whichthe linings are made may be treated before or after being formed to meetthe condition under which they are to be used. The lining after beingformed should have the approximate diameter and a slightly increasedheight than that of the interior diameter and height of the conventionalrefuse receptacle in which it was to be used. Around the outside of thesaid lining and so near the top just below the cutting edge of theclamping band a pull and lifting wire is attached extending around theentire circumference of the said lining and one end of the said pull andlifting wire being loose and protruding through 35 the lining to theinside so that it could be taken a hold of to lift and draw the liningagainst the cutting edge of the clamping band. After inserting thelining or linings in a conventional refuse receptacle, a removablecutting and clamping to band consisting of a U shaped circular band ofspring steel is placed upon the top rim of the conventional refusereceptacle the outer portion of this clamping band extends downward andpresses against the exterior side of the conventional refuse receptaclewhile the interior side presses against the lining around the entireinterior circumference of the conventional refuse receptacle andpresents a cutting edge against which the pull wire lifts and draws thelining, and by which action the lining is cut around its entirecircumference and which permits its removal from the said conventionalrefuse receptacle. The material of which the linings are made, may betreated with, as for instance with any one or, a combination of thefollowing substances; Aluminum oleate, aluminum resinate,

aluminum palmitate, aluminum stearate, sodium silicate, fish glue, alumsolution, ferris sulphate, zinc chloride, iodoform, aluminum tannate,

mercuric chloride, sodium para cresol, phenol, solution um tungstate,solution of borax or any other suitable treatment necessary inaccordance with the use to which the linings would serve.

The accompanying drawing illustrates one method by whichthe liningscould be formed.

Fig. 1 illustrates one method of how the material from which the liningsare to be made, would be cut in circular form and creased so that aninner circle would be formed having approximately the same diameter asthat of the interior bottom diameter of the conventional refusereceptacle in which it was to be used. The distance between the innercircle and the outer circle should be slightly more than the height ofthe side of the conventional refuse receptacle in which it was to beused. The folds would be V shaped and the narrow or point of the V wouldbe at the edge of the inner circle while the top or wide part of the Vfold would be at the edge of the outer circle.

Fig. 2 illustrates how the folds extend from the edge of the outercircle to the edge of the inner circle and indicates how the excessmaterial of the outer circle would be taken up by the V folds so thatthe open top of the cylinder thus formed would be approximately the samediameter as that of the closed bottom of the said cylinder.

Fig. 3 illustrates the nature of the folds and the way they cometogether and take up the excess material so that a cylinder would beformed having approximately the same open top diameter as the closedbottom diameter.

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of strychnine, sodi-- Fig. 4 is a view showing the formed cylinder orlining with the dotted line (1) indicating where the pull and liftingwire is attached to the lining for lifting and drawing the liningagainst the cutting edge of the clampingband.

Fig. 5 is a view of a conventional refuse receptacle containing theinserted removable lining or linings. 2 represents the conventionalreceptacle. 3 the removable lining. 4 the cutting and clamping band. And5 the pull and lifting wire for lifting and drawing the lining againstthe cutting edge of the clamping band (4) for the purpose of removinglining (3) from the conventional refuse receptacle (2).

It is to be understood that while, I have shown and described one methodby which my invention could be put to practical use, I do not limit myinvention to said description as it will appear obvious that changes maybe made without departing from the spirit or scope of my invention.

I claim:

A garbage can comprising an outer receptacle, an upper ring retainingmember having a cutting edge, a number of separately removable liningspositioned in said receptacle, a pull wire extending around the entireouter circumference and near the top of each of said linings, one endpermanently attached to said lining, while the other end is loose andprotrudes to the inside of said lining, whereby when the wire is pulledthe lining is lifted and drawn against the cutting edge of the retainingmember and thereby removed from the container.

LELAND A. DUBBS.

